Tag Archives: Rights of Children
Setting the Stage
Why Education? The title of this issue, ‘A Pedagogy for the Distressed’, echoes Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a seminal work both for critical pedagogy and liberation theology. Many are distressed about the state of education, both in the … Continue reading
Why Child Marriage Subsists – And Why It Shouldn’t
Five years ago I visited a project of the Livingstonia Synod AIDS Program (LISAP) in northeastern Malawi. Here I met a 12-year-old girl who had recently been freed from a forced marriage she had been in for 4 years. Divorced at … Continue reading
That All May Have Life in Fullness
The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands – Young Adult Action Movement’s Child Sexual Abuse Awareness and Prevention Project Aware that the National Young Adults Action Movement (UCYAAM) was not having as much impact across the denomination as … Continue reading
Petition to Protect Rights of Children
It is time for the U.S. to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child Urge President Obama to send the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to the United States Senate for ratification. The CRC sets the … Continue reading
Links,
